Sentence examples for physics enrolment from inspiring English sources

Another study demonstrated that stereotypical attitudes, such as "physics is a male subject", can act as deterrents in upper secondary school physics enrolment (Abraham & Barker 2015b).

Declining levels of participation are likely to have consequences for physics enrolment at university, as high school mathematics was found to be a strong predictor of achievement in university physics courses in the USA (Hazari et al. 2007).

Typically, these studies investigated students' thinking about future enrolment in physics and advanced mathematics.

Thus, Australia appears similar to the UK with a gender divide evident in upper secondary enrolment in physics.

Between 1995 and 2000, although the total number of British graduates rose by 12%, enrolment in physics and engineering courses fell by 7% and enrolment in chemistry dropped a whopping 16%.

Declining enrolments in physics and advanced mathematics is not a new phenomenon.

Why? Physics and physical dimensions.

The same study reported that perceptions of students' own ability and task difficulty predict future enrolment patterns in physics at school (Abraham & Barker 2015b).

When his oldest sister, Gina, found out, she dragged him to a local sixth-form college on the day of enrolment, to retake his physics and art.

The university, one of 10 worldwide to be given the role of HeForShe impact champion, has identified six disciplines with the largest disparity between male and female enrolment – computer science, engineering, physics and astronomy, sociology, media and communications, and psychology – and will aim for a one percentage point change towards gender parity every year.

Our purpose was to identify the experiences that these students most strongly associated with the generation and maintenance of their engagement in science, particularly represented in this research by their enrolment in upper secondary physics.